Halloween at Home: My Sparkling Cider Bishop Recipe

Sparkling Cider Bishop
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Ingredients
1 750ml bottle Martinelli’s sparkling cider
1 bottle pear juice
1 orange
My Fall 5 Spice Blend*: Cinnamon Sticks (2), Grated Fresh Nutmeg (1/2tsp), 
Crystalized Ginger (4 pieces), Crushed Star Anise (3), Whole Cloves (1tsp)
Juice of 1 lemon
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Method
Over medium heat, fill a small sauce pot on the stove with the sparkling cider, pear juice, and the juice of 1 lemon. Slice the orange in half, leave 1 half to the side and thinly slice the other half. Place orange slices to the side, and pierce the other half of the orange with the cloves. Add the clove-orange  half to the liquid along with the remaining 4 spices. Bring the liquid to a simmer, and then reduce the heat to medium low to let the liquid slowly reduce a bit and the flavors blend (about 15 minutes). When the room starts to smell wonderfully fragrant, remove the orange half with an oven mitt and gently squeeze all the juice out and into the sauce pot. Discard the orange peel. 


You can now strain the cider to remove all the spices, and then add the orange slices to the liquid or choose to simply carefully ladle the liquid, avoiding the spice pieces, into mugs or heat proof glasses and garnish with an orange slice.

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